VILLAR-D’ARENE, France — An English climber on Sunday found the bodies of six mountaineers in the French Alps who appeared to have died after a fall caused by an avalanche of snow and stones, officials said. The bodies found on Neige...

BISHKEK – Kyrgzystan’s parliament on Thursday voted to put Russia’s strongman prime minister on the map by giving his name to one of its mountain peaks. A mountain measuring 4,446 metres (14,586 feet) in the country’s northern...

LONDON — A climber who fell around 1,000 feet (300 meters) from the summit of a Scottish mountain is lucky to be alive, his rescuers said. The helicopter crew sent to search for the man were astonished to find him standing up and reading a map....

SAN FRANCISCO — A hiker has died after reportedly being fatally attacked by a mountain goat while at a national park in the western US state of Washington, US park officials said on Sunday. Barb Maynes, spokeswoman for Olympic National...

3 US war vets, 1 good leg: Afghan, Iraq, Vietnam vets summit Mt. Kilimanjaro on prosthetics The three veterans from three different wars had only one good leg among them. But that didn’t stop them from summiting Africa’s highest...

A 13-year-old American boy on Saturday became the youngest person to conquer Mount Everest, his website said, setting a new but controversial world record. Jordan Romero was one of more than 50 mountaineers who reached the top of the...

Glenn Beck has a dream…but apparently it’s not a very original one. The controversial Fox News host is orchestrating a rally in Washington DC on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech at the Lincoln Memorial. Beck...

A group of Chinese and Turkish evangelical explorers said Monday they believe they may have found Noah’s Ark — four thousand metres up a mountain in Turkey. However, the Christian Science Monitor reports that “a longtime...